Imagine a sparse pine forest. Imagine the forest floor as it typically is in these forests – covered with lichens and mosses and heather and blueberry/cowberry/crowberry brush and juniper bushes. Now imagine the leaves of a pale pasque flower. And imagine that there is just one pale pasque flower individual in all of this forest.…

Just when you thought you’d seen the last hepatica picture! Well I thought I’d taken my last hepatica picture (for the year) until I saw a bunch of them, radiating their colour from under the branches of a spruce. The flowers were big and the colour was very strong, not a pale flower in the…

I like hiking light. Dragging a whole lot of photography gear is just not my thing, because I want to enjoy the hike as well. So I have a big dilemma when I have to choose the gear for mountain hikes because I want to be able shoot both flowers and landscapes. And since the…

Last week I was hoping that I was done with the crocus pictures, but I just had to post this one. It’s not very polite to shove a lens up to anyone’s reproductive system but the crocus didn’t mind and I promise that no flowers were harmed in the process! In order to get this…

I’ve got myself a new toy in the form of a 14″ Sony Vaio laptop. I must say that I’m quite happy with it, not least because I got it for discounted price that I’m sure was Sony’s mistake! When I was looking for a laptop, I was having a real hard time finding something…

Every day there’s more crocuses coming up under my kitchen window. Today I had five of them in bloom, but I can see three new buds already. It’s too bad that my crocus patch is shaded in the evening so the only chance I have of seeing them open is during the weekend, so I…

Finally, finally, finally! Time for my best friend, the macro lens. My crocuses are not in full bloom yet, but I know that the coltsfoot will have dotted the roadside yellow in that warm spot that is always the first one to melt in Loos. I was hoping to see other signs of spring, anything…